Mission Area: Promoting Sound Farming Practices
Angeles Crest Creamery
Angeles Crest Creamy used a Brighter Future Fund grant to protect a popular goat grazing area destroyed in the Bob Cat Fire.
New York Climate Policy Priorities
Farmers can play a key role in combating climate change. AFT works on policies that support farm viability and help farmers mitigate impacts.
The CaRPE Tool
The Carbon Reduction Potential Evaluation Tool, or CaRPE, is a web-based interactive tool that allows users to quickly visualize and quantify GHG emission reductions resulting from the implementation of a suite of cropland and grazing land conservation management practices.
Climate and Soil Health Initiative
AFT’s Climate and Soil Health Initiative is AFT’s comprehensive effort to ensure farmland, farming, and farmers’ roles in growing solutions and resilience to climate change.
Lorie Ames: Building Confidence and Relationships with New York Farmers
Lorie Ames participated in AFT’s New York Soil Health Specialist training to improve her work with farmers.
New York Policy
AFT advocates to protect farmland, keep farmers on the land, and help farmers adopt sound farming practices in New York state policy.
Soil Health for Dairy Suppliers
This project aims to help crop farmers who supply feed to Danone’s North American dairies build holistic soil health management systems across the project area.
Farms Under Threat: Biodiversity and Agriculture
AFT has embarked on a unique effort to map the agricultural and forested lands across the contiguous United States that help wildlife move daily and seasonally within their home ranges.
Kentucky Climate-Smart Cereal Rye Cover Crop Initiative
The Kentucky Commercial Rye Cover Crop Initiative is AFT’s effort to bring rye back to Kentucky as a commercial cover crop, build farmer and stakeholder excitement and awareness to the benefits of cover crops in general, engage end-user business interest and support, and improve regional soil and water quality and land conservation.
New York Soil Health Specialists
AFT’s New York Soil Health Specialists program has trained a network of agricultural service professionals across New York to help farmers with soil health.